Sweatbox

Definitions

1. Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco
2. A jail cell.
   US, slang
3. A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being transported.
   UK, slang
4. A small overheated cell or room used for solitary confinement or torture.
5. A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.
   slang
6. The room where a scene is reviewed.
7. The review process that takes place in a sweat box.

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Examples

“Australia Post⟳ has been accused of endangering staff with "sweatbox" uniforms and restricting earlier starts to save⟳ money.”

“They shoved me in the back of a police van and started driving to the cop shop⟳. I was sitting in the sweatbox, wondering how the Dibble had got onto me so quickly, when I heard a voice from another section of the van say⟳, 'Are you P from Macclesfield?'”

“[…] she was finally hustled into a sweatbox, as prisoners and prison staff called it, and was off to meet⟳ her new home for the foreseeable future.”

“In the summer of 1945, one young boy died of heart failure while locked in a sweatbox, a popular corrective at that time.”

“Don't step in the wrong spot You will gеt caught When you step in the swеatbox They'll make⟳ you talk⟳”

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